The Arizona champion., 1887-07-02
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.

King Otto, ot Greece, IS declareu insane.
 Sinclair Tousey, the founder of the American news company IS dead.
 Governor Bartlett, of California, is slowly recovering from his sickness.
 Mrs. Cleveland has returned to Washington from her visit to Albany.
 San Francisco got up a very respec. table celebration of the jubilee of Queen Vic.
 A Philadelphia woman niuety- nine years of age fell out of a window and was killed.
 It is now positively asserted that Secretary Lamar will be the new U. $. supreme court judge.
 General James Speed, who was at. torney general in Lincoln's first ad- ministration, died last week.
 A preacher named Leberry has de- camped from Fl Paso, swindling the people of that town out of about S6,ooo.
 There is one man in the country that is delighted with the confeder. ate flag bushes. His name is David B. Hill.
 Old Ben Butler says, "Cleveland ordered the Southern flags returned because he did not know enough not to do It."
 A trestle bridge made q convenient gallows for the lynchers of James Webb, at Aberdeen, Miss. He had poisoned his wife.
 The Fidelity bank, which failed at Cincinnati, shows fearfully rotten condition of things. Some of the off cials have been arrested and are in jail.
 The jury in the notorious Cora Lee murder case tried at Springfield, Mo !, have disagreed. It occupied two weeks, and the trial will, have to be repeated.
 Dr. E. P. Dougan, a we'll known physician of East Brooklyn, was shot and killed while entering hls carriage on the street. The murderer was one Weidler, who was arrested.
 Dan A. Sweet, who has been the assistant traffic manager of the A. T. K s. F., will accompany General Superintendent Smith to Chicago, where he will have more important position.
 Jeff Davis says: "The order of the war department to return the cap. tured flags of the,,..late confederate states was a violation of all known military precedents. The flags were captured by the volunteer army off the north and belong to the several states.
 Jchn P. St. John, the leader of the prohibitionists, says there are fifty five empty county jails in the state of Iowa. If this be the case it is certain. ly strong argument Tn favor of pro- hibltlon. But this modern St. Tohn has no character for yeracity, conse. quently the statement must have bet. ter authority. before it will be be- lieyed.
 One of the worst affrays of its kiud ever known took place at Moorehead, Kentucky, last week; when a sheriff with posse of one hundred men went to capture four notorious desperadoes Bud Tolliyer, Craig Tolliver, Jay lslllSer and Harvey Cooper. The men made desperate resistance and all of them were killed.
 Colfax county, New Mexico, has been thrown into a state of high ex- citement over the the mysterious mur- de Of Charles Boggs at his ranch | some little distance from Springer. | Mrs Boggs carried the first news off the killing to a neighbours and the corpse was found lying on the bed with bullet hole in the back of the skull. Boggs and his wife did not get along we'll together. She was young and pretty and he accused her of un. due familiarity with several ranchmep. This led to violent quarrels. She claimed to have been out of the house when the shot was fired, but public opinion in the case Is pretty positive.